​PROGRAM

PASSIO
​​Julian Revie, organ
​Karolina Wojteczko, mezzo-soprano 
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J.S. Bach
1685-1750
PRELUDE & FUGUE IN E FLAT MAJOR – ST ANNE, BWV552 (1739)
 
J.S. Bach
ERBARME DICH, MEIN GOTT (1727)
Matthäus Passion, BWV 244. No. 39
for mezzo-soprano, violin obbligato and continuo
 
J. S. Bach
CHORALE PRELUDE – ERBARM DICH MEIN, O HERRE GOTT, BWV721 (1747)
 
LES ANGÉLUS OP. 57 (1930-31)
Triptyque pour chant et orgue
Au matin
À midi
Au soir
 
Maurice Duruflé
1902-1986
PIE JESU (1947)
Requiem Op.9, No.5
for mezzo-soprano, cello and organ
 
Mack Wilberg
b.1955
HOW LOVELY IS THY DWELLING PLACE (2008)
Written for American mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade
 
Louis Vierne
1870-1937
CARILLON DE WESTMINSTER, OP. 54, NO. 6 (1927)

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ABOUT THE PROGAM
Julian Revie, organ
Australian-Canadian composer Julian Darius Revie is Associate Director of Music at the Center for Music and Liturgy, Saint Thomas More Chapel at Yale University. Prior posts include serving as Organist at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Ottawa and Director of the Choir of Robinson College at Cambridge University.  

Mr. Revie is honoured to be the first prize winner of the 2016 Francesco Siciliani composition competition run by the Vatican, with an intern Jational jury panel chaired by Helmuth Rilling and Arvo Pärt. The jury convened on September 16, 2016 for a public performance of the finalists’ works by the St. Jacob’s Chamber Choir of Stockholm, conducted by Gary Graden.
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Mr. Revie’s compositions for solo instruments, voice, chamber ensembles and orchestra have been performed in North America, Europe, and Australia, in venues including Lincoln Center and the Sydney Opera House. In June 2015, the world premiere of his Mass of the Divine Shepherd was given at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The hour-long work featured soloists mezzo-soprano Karolina Wojteczko and tenor Russell Thomas joined by 600 performers – choirs from Norway, Finland, England and North America, including the National Children's Chorus (USA), and over 200 handbell players, including Iceland’s Reykjanesbær Music School Bell Choir, all overseen by conductor Stephen Layton.

Also in 2015, The Love of God, a work adapted from the seventh movement of Mass of the Divine Shepherd, was selected as the communion antiphon for the Papal Mass in Philadelphia. It was performed
by The Philadelphia Orchestra with a 300-voice massed choir and children’s chorus, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
  
Born in Ottawa, Canada, Mr. Revie studied piano, organ and clarinet from an early age and was first prize winner of the Canadian Music Competition in organ performance. He holds degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from Yale University and Caltech in the United States and a Master’s in Composition from Cambridge University in Great Britain. His master’s dissertation, “Unity and Uniqueness in the Fifth Mode Great Responsories: New Approaches to the Multifaceted Layers of Plainchant Melody,” is an analysis of groups of related plainchant melodies that draws upon techniques used in analysis of tonal music (specifically, Schenkerian analysis) as well as upon the mathematical and computational tools used in comparative genetic analysis. Mr. Revie has studied piano with Sandra Webster and organ with Pamela Hoswitschka in Ottawa, and later with Canadian composer Veronika Krausas (USC) and Bruce Reich(UCLA). At The Juilliard School, he has studied with Milton Babbitt, Samuel Adler, and most recently Philip Lasser. He is a recipient of a DAAD scholarship for study in Berlin.
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Karolina Wojteczko, mezzo-soprano
 
Praised for her “light and free-sounding voice—throughout its range”, Mezzo-Soprano Karolina Wojteczko is earning a reputation for wonderful performances on both the operatic and concert stages.
 
Born in Dabrowa Bialostocka, Poland, Karolina Wojteczko (Mezzo-Soprano) has graduated from Western Connecticut State University with BM in Vocal Performance. She is a part of voice faculty as well as member of St. Thomas Moore Yale Chapel Choir and Naugatuck Valley College Choir. Karolina is a music teacher at St. Mary-St.Michael’s Catholic School in Derby CT. Mrs. Wojteczko studies with voice teacher Dr. Margaret Astrup.

For the past few years she has performed as a guest artist in New York City for Kosciuszko Foundation Pro Art League. In 2008 and 2010 she received a 1st place at NATS. Karolina was selected for numerous scholarships like Opera Patron Scholarship or Schoolmasters Special Scholarship to name few. She was a recipient of the LaCamera Guida at the MONC 2011 New England Regional Auditions in CT. Recently she has received an honorable mention in Amici Vocal Competition.

Previous Opera performances included “The Pirates of Penzance” and “Trial by Jury” by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Also, she performed as Zita in “Gianni Schicchi”, and Abbess in “Suor Angelica” by Puccini, as Cherubino in “Le Nozze Di Figaro” and Third Lady in “The Magic Flute” by Mozart. Karolina performed as the Mother in “Amahl and the Night Visitors” by Menotti and as Vicky in “The Full Monty” by David Yazbek. In summer of 2012 Mrs. Wojteczko was seen as Alicia in production of “Lucia di Lammermoor” and in 2013 as Giovanna in “Rigoletto” both with the Opera Theater of Connecticut. Recently she has performed “Gloria” by F. Poulenc, “Requiem” by W.E. Mozart and “Messiah” by G.F. Handel.
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